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TagTeam social RSS aggregratorCall for papers – Challenges in the Scholarly Publishing Cycle 2019 | Research Information<p>"<span>Organised by</span><span> </span><strong>Research Information </strong><span>magazine in partnership with</span><span> </span><strong>London Info International, </strong><span>our 2019 conference will provide</span><span> </span><strong>librarians and information professionals</strong><span> </span><span>with an invaluable insight into best practice for</span><span> </span><strong>delivering the open research agenda</strong><span>.</span></p>
<p>With funders placing an increasing emphasis on open research, librarians are faced with the challenge of changing entrenched practices among researchers - particularly around the submission stage. </p>
<p>At CISPC 2019, which will be held on Wednesday 20 November – once again at the glorious London Art House – we will be bringing together speakers from around the world that have addressed this challenge head-on, and who will share their experiences and expertise with fellow scholarly communication professionals. The website for the event will be live imminently.</p>
<p><strong>Conference themes</strong><span>:</span></p>
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<li><span>Convincing academics to share research;</span></li>
<li><span>Tackling the administrative overhead of open research submissions;</span></li>
<li><span>How technology tools can help smooth submission and searchability; and</span></li>
<li><span>Publishing ‘work in progress’ vs the wait for completed research articles...."</span></li>
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Fri, 24 May 2019 12:53:00 -0400https://www.researchinformation.info/news/call-papers-challenges-scholarly-publishing-cycle-2019
oa.newoa.cfpoa.eventsPublications Manager @ CDL, University of California<p>The California Digital Library (CDL) at the University of California is seeking candidates for our Publications Manager position. If you have publishing experience and are looking for an exciting opportunity to help work toward open and sustainable scholarly communication (and infrastructure), we want to hear from you!</p>
<p>The eScholarship Publications Manager will coordinate CDL’s well-established, open access library publishing program, including a catalog of 80+ academic journals and 60+ monographs spanning a broad range of disciplines. Working with faculty, students, and library partners across the 10-campus UC system, this position will help support the operations and growth of eScholarship’s existing suite of publishing services, while also participating in the development of new programs and services tuned to the needs of emerging modes of scholarly communication.</p>
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<p>More information can be found at: <a href="http://jobs.ucop.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=61758">http://jobs.ucop.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=61758</a></p>
Fri, 24 May 2019 12:48:00 -0400http://jobs.ucop.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=61758
oa.newoa.jobsoa.usa.caoa.publishingoa.usaAre we being wilfully blind about the transformation that’s needed in scholarly publishing?<p>"<span>This brings to mind another esoteric wall game, “Open Access”, where it could be argued that the remorseless application of pressure over the past two decades has advanced open access inch by painful inch to the point where we are all exhausted, but the goal — no paywalls — remains out of reach.</span></p>
<p>That both games have remained goalless for so long suggests each contains a fundamental flaw that can only be fixed by some sort of transformation of the way it’s played. Whisper it quietly, but unlike tradition-loving private schools in Britain, “transformative” has emerged as a new buzzword in the Open Access lexicon...."</p>
Fri, 24 May 2019 12:30:00 -0400https://medium.com/@TobyABGreen/are-we-being-wilfully-blind-about-the-transformation-thats-needed-in-scholarly-publishing-d0bfb61d1f05
oa.newoa.offsetsoa.conversionsoa.goldoa.feesoa.objectionsoa.debatesoa.double_dippingoa.business_modelsoa.preprintsoa.terminologyoa.definitionsoa.versionsoa.journalsVinnova, Sweden’s Innovation Agency, Joins cOAlition S | Plan S<blockquote>
<p>cOAlition S is pleased to announce that Vinnova, Sweden’s government agency for Innovation, is the latest funding agency to join the coalition and demonstrate its commitment to the realisation of science without publication paywalls. cOAlition S now has 19 members from across Europe, North America, Africa, and the Middle East. Vinnova contribute to sustainable growth by improving the conditions for innovation, mainly through funding innovation projects and research needed to develop new solutions. Their vision is that Sweden is an innovative force in a sustainable world; a leading global player in research and innovation and a country that is attractive for investment and entrepreneurship.</p>
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Fri, 24 May 2019 11:48:00 -0400https://www.coalition-s.org/vinnova-joins-coalition-s/
oa.newoa.europeoa.swedenoa.vinnovaoa.plan_soa.fundersoa.fundingoa.paywallsoa.innovationExploring Open Access Ebook Usage | hc:24147 | Humanities CORE<p>Abstract: This white paper was prepared by the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) as part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project, Understanding OA Ebook Usage: Toward a Common Framework. Primary authors are: Brian O’Leary (BISG) and Kevin Hawkins (University of North Texas). The project team, who contributed editing and improvements, include Charles Watkinson (University of Michigan), Lucy Montgomery (Curtin University/KU Research), Cameron Neylon (Curtin University/KU Research), and Katherine Skinner (Educopia Institute). Copyright for this white paper is held by BISG and licensed to the general public under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.</p>
Fri, 24 May 2019 11:21:00 -0400https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:24147/
oa.newoa.bisgoa.mellon_foundationoa.booksoa.usageThe New England Journal of Medicine, open access, Plan S, and undeclared conflicts of interest | Richard Smith's non-medical blogs<p>"<span>The</span><span> </span><em>New England Journal of Medicine</em><span> </span><span>disapproves of open access publishing and Plan S.</span><span> </span><a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms1900864">https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms1900864</a><span> </span><span> There’s nothing surprising in that. (The opposite would have been surprising.) What is surprising is that the journal does not declare its substantial conflicts of interest, when the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, of which it is a founding and prominent member, has made clear for 30 years that all conflicts of interest should be declared.</span></p>
<p>The <em>New England Journal of Medicine</em> is immensely profitable (although we don’t know exactly how profitable), and those profits—and the compensation and livelihood of its employees—are potentially disrupted by open access and particularly Plan S, the European plan to extend open access publishing...."</p>
Fri, 24 May 2019 11:20:00 -0400https://richardswsmith.wordpress.com/the-new-england-journal-of-medicine-open-access-plan-s-and-undeclared-conflicts-of-interest/
oa.newoa.nejmoa.medicineoa.plan_soa.debatesoa.journalsoa.publishersoa.coioa.misconductEssential Open Source Software for Science – Chan Zuckerberg Science Initiative – Medium<p>"<span>We followed two guiding principles in creating this opportunity:</span></p>
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<li>First, we didn’t want to limit funding to pure software development. <strong>Open source is more than just writing code.</strong> It includes improving documentation, addressing usability, managing the project, and building community. We want to provide opportunities in whatever form will help make the computational foundations of biological research more usable and robust....</li>
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<li>Second, we wanted to be <strong>inclusive in defining the scope of what counts as essential software for biomedical research</strong>. The proposed work does not need to be tied to novel research. Additionally, both domain-specific software and foundational tools and infrastructure used across several domains of science will be eligible to apply, so long as they have some impact in biomedical science. Such foundational tools can range from data structures to numerical computation libraries to toolkits for workflow execution and reproducibility. These tools play a critical role, often acting as dependencies for more domain-specific tools...."</li>
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Fri, 24 May 2019 11:17:00 -0400https://medium.com/@cziscience/essential-open-source-software-for-science-72faec2c38c1
oa.newoa.czioa.funders.privateoa.cfpoa.softwareoa.medicineoa.biomedicineoa.code4oaoa.flossoa.toolsoa.infrastructureoa.biologyoa.fundersComing Soon: Essential Open Source Software for Science - Chan Zuckerberg Initiative<p>"<span>The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will soon invite applications for open source software projects that are essential to biomedical research. Applicants can request funding between $50k and $250k for one year. This RFA is the first of a series. CZI will invite applications during three distinct cycles, with rounds beginning June 18, 2019; mid-December 2019; and mid-June 2020. </span><a href="https://medium.com/@cziscience/essential-open-source-software-for-science-72faec2c38c1"><span>Read our Medium post</span></a><span> to learn more...."</span></p>
Fri, 24 May 2019 11:14:00 -0400https://chanzuckerberg.com/rfa/essential-open-source-software-for-science/
oa.newoa.czioa.funders.privateoa.cfpoa.softwareoa.medicineoa.biomedicineoa.code4oaoa.flossoa.toolsoa.infrastructureoa.fundersLSU ends Elsevier bundled journal subscription<p>"<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/college/louisiana-state-university">Louisiana State University</a> will terminate its “big deal” with publisher Elsevier at the end of this year, joining the <a href="https://sparcopen.org/our-work/big-deal-cancellation-tracking/">growing list</a> of U.S. institutions that have recently decided not to renew their bundled journal subscription deals with the publisher.</p>
<p>LSU is just the latest of several U.S. institutions, including the <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/03/01/university-california-cancels-deal-elsevier-after-months-negotiations">University of California system</a>, Temple University and <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2018/04/26/florida-state-cancels-bundled-journal-deal-elsevier">Florida State University</a>, to announce its intentions to end its business relationship with Elsevier in the last two years....</p>
<p>LSU’s Faculty Senate approved a resolution recommending the cancellation of the subscription package in April. ..."</p>
Fri, 24 May 2019 10:14:00 -0400https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/05/24/lsu-ends-elsevier-bundled-journal-subscription
oa.newoa.lsuoa.cancellationsoa.elsevieroa.big_dealsoa.budgetsoa.pricesThe Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance<p>"This is the Pubpub site for <em>The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance</em> by Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick. It was used for open peer review through May 1, 2019....</p>
<p>Data should be open. The source data that represents the evidenciary basis for this book is freely available from the library of one of my home institutions. </p>
<p>Knowledge should be free. Upon publication, this book will be available in traditional forms (physical book and e-copy), but it will also be a free, downloadable, open access PDF. Open Access is about democratizing dissemination.</p>
<p>Free knowledge should be well-informed. This project has been through peer review @MITPress, and has benefitted from input from dozens of other readers. Open Peer Review is an opportunity to hear from an even broader range of voices. In other words, Open Peer Review goes some way toward democratizing knowledge production....</p>
<p>I am considering launching a “living version” of this book after it is published in fixed physical and digital form (as bound book or static PDF). What would happen if subsequent technological developments, theoretical insights, random heckling, and informed critique could be concentrated around the body of the text itself? What if the online version of the manuscript is opened to user contributions of video, datasets, supporting and contradicting evidence, Github links, source-files for 3D printed drones, and the like.</p>
<p>What does the future of publishing look like? I’m not sure, but am happy to be part of an experiment along the way...."</p>
Fri, 24 May 2019 10:11:00 -0400https://thegooddrone.pubpub.org/
oa.booksoa.peer_reviewoa.mitoa.pubpuboa.newoa.dynamicoa.open_peer_reviewoa.dataGuidelines: Open-Peer-Review-Verfahren einfach implementieren und Akzeptanz fördern (Guidelines: Simply implement open-peer review procedures and promote acceptance)<p>From Google's English: </p>
<p>"How can Open Peer Review be introduced? Where else could Open Peer Review be applied and promoted in the future? Tony Ross-Hellauer, one of the authors of the Guidelines for Open Peer Review Implementation, shared with us the key elements of Open Peer Review and its recommendations."</p>
Fri, 24 May 2019 06:37:00 -0400https://www.zbw-mediatalk.eu/de/2019/05/guidelines-how-to-implement-open-peer-review-and-foster-its-adoption/
oa.newoa.germanyoa.germanoa.recommendationsoa.guidesoa.peer_reviewoa.slidesoa.benefitsoa.librariesoa.heioa.implementationOpen Access and Academic Publishing - Open Libraries Humanities<p>Since 1986, subscription costs for academic journals have risen by <a href="https://doi.org/10.1629/2048-7754.25.2.158">300% above inflation</a>. In addition to exponentially increased research output over this period this has triggered what is known as “the serials crisis”; the inability of library budgets to keep pace with the prices set by publishers.</p>
<p>Simultaneously, it has been realised that putting research behind paywalls is both unjust (especially if the research was funded by the taxpayer) and also unhelpful; scholarly and scientific practices are not advanced by restricting access. This led to the rise of <a href="http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/openaccess/read">the open access movement</a>. Open access is traditionally schematized into two routes: green and gold. The former means that access is made open through the author depositing a copy of their article in their institution’s repository. The second means that the journal itself is open and free to read.</p>
Fri, 24 May 2019 06:31:00 -0400https://www.openlibhums.org/site/about/open-access-and-academic-publishing/
oa.newoa.ukoa.humanitiesoa.platformsoa.no-feeoa.costsoa.sustainabilityoa.business_modelsoa.feesoa.greenoa.goldoa.repositoriesoa.sshoa.journalsoa.economics_ofThe Open Access 2020 Initiative (OA2020) seeks to foster innovative forms of scholarly inquiry <p>The Open Access 2020 Initiative (OA2020) seeks to foster innovative forms of scholarly inquiry and enable faster and more impactful communication of results by transforming the way research is published and disseminated. We are a global alliance of academic and research organizations working to transform the current subscription publishing system, an obsolete legacy of the print era, to new open access publishing models that ensure articles are open and re-usable and that the costs associated with their dissemination are transparent and economically sustainable.</p>
Fri, 24 May 2019 06:25:00 -0400https://oa2020.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/Open-Access-2020-Executive-Summary.pdf
oa.newoa.germanyoa.horizon2020oa.strategiesoa.pledgesoa.declarationsoa.heioa.librariesoa.impactoa.paywallsoa.business_modelsoa.pricesoa.costsoa.peer_reviewoa.sustainabilityoa.economics_ofOpen Access to scientific publications and research data in Horizon 2020: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) <p>Affordable and easy access to scientific information is very important for the scientific community itself, but also increasingly important for innovative small businesses. Improving access to scientific information is also about increasing openness and transparency, which are essential features of Responsible Research and Innovation and contributes to better policy-making.</p>
<p>All projects receiving <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/">Horizon 2020</a> funding will have the obligation to make sure any peer-reviewed journal article which they publish is openly accessible, free of charge.</p>
<p>This fact sheet is written as a frequently asked questions (FAQ) document, in order to answer queries received from Horizon 2020 applicants. This fact sheet should be read in parallel with the “Guidelines on Open Access to Scientific Publications and Research Data in Horizon 2020”.</p>
Fri, 24 May 2019 06:16:00 -0400http://www.iprhelpdesk.eu/Fact-Sheet-Open-Access-to-Publications-and-Data-in-H2020-FAQ
oa.newoa.germanyoa.policies.fundersoa.mandatesoa.horizon2020oa.policiesoa.fundersBJOC - Platinum Open Access<p><strong>Platinum open access</strong> means permanent and free access to published scientific works for readers with no publication fees for the authors – 100% free. All articles are published under the most flexible reuse standard – the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY license</a>.</p>
Fri, 24 May 2019 06:10:00 -0400https://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/openAccess
oa.newoa.germanyoa.business_modelsoa.accessoa.journalsoa.publishersoa.policies.journalsoa.policiesoa.no-feeThe International Year of Indigenous Languages Puts a Spotlight on the Importance of their Documentation and Preservation <p><span>In celebration of the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL) declared by the United Nations (UN) for 2019, De Gruyter Mouton </span><a href="https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/lp-mouton-iyil?fbclid=IwAR2SmPImuq7BaYiehD9UXOHhH99C60HhDZcxWsVktzYFLU6d6xDzQ98e1lQ">features</a><span> in monthly free access a raft of its book titles that explore endangered indigenous languages, their documentation challenges and their grammatical features.</span></p>
Fri, 24 May 2019 06:07:00 -0400https://openscience.com/the-international-year-of-indigenous-languages-puts-a-spotlight-on-the-importance-of-their-documentation-and-preservation/
oa.newoa.germanyoa.chinaoa.san_marinooa.south_americaoa.preservationoa.open_scienceoa.de_gruyteroa.booksoa.accessoa.southThe State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons | IDRC - International Development Research Centre<div><span>Editor(s): </span>Tim Davies, Stephen B. Walker, Mor Rubinstein, and Fernando Perini</div>
<div><span>Publisher(s): </span>African Minds, IDRC <span>2019-05-05</span></div>
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<div><span>ISBN: </span>9781928331957</div>
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<div>e-ISBN: 9781552506127</div>
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<p>In the decade since open data first broke onto the global stage, thousands of programs and projects around the world have worked to open data and use it to address a myriad of social and economic challenges. Meanwhile, issues related to data rights and privacy have moved to the centre of public and political discourse.</p>
<p>As the open data movement enters a new phase in its evolution, shifting to target real-world problems and embed open data thinking into other existing or emerging communities of practice, big questions still remain. How will open data initiatives respond to new concerns about privacy, inclusion, and artificial intelligence? And what can we learn from the last decade in order to deliver impact where it is most needed? <em>The State of Open Data </em>brings together more than 60 authors from around the world to address these questions and to take stock of the real progress made to date across sectors and around the world, uncovering the issues that will shape the future of open data in the years to come.</p>
<p>For further information, go to the <a href="http://stateofopendata.od4d.net/">online resource</a> for <em>The State of Open Data. </em></p>
Fri, 24 May 2019 05:19:00 -0400https://www.idrc.ca/en/book/state-open-data-histories-and-horizons
oa.newoa.publicationsoa.dataKnowledge is Global: Expanding the Awareness and Impact of Research from the Global South<p>"<span>As we move toward a more openly accessible research environment, progress is often framed in terms of increasing access to original studies and associated data published in peer reviewed scholarly journals indexed in databases like Web of Science and Scopus. However, there is a growing awareness that a large body of high quality research from the Global South (aka developing countries in Latin America, Africa, &amp; much of Asia) is not part of that scholarly communications environment. Much of this research is already open access, but because major western databases don’t index most of those journals, it does not register in terms of traditional bibliometrics that use citation counts to measure the impact of authors, their articles and the journals they publish in. For example, just 4% of Latin American peer reviewed journals are included in Web of Science. What can libraries do to help increase the visibility and impact of this large and growing body of research from the Global South? This panel gathers researchers, librarians and policy experts to explore new and innovative ways to change the ways we both access and assess research outputs, and why that is important...."</span></p>
Thu, 23 May 2019 08:48:00 -0400https://www.eventscribe.com/2019/ALA-Annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=496279
oa.newoa.alaoa.eventsoa.southoa.impactoa.librariesoa.awarenessCelebrating 20 Years | About Hindawi<p>"<span>As Hindawi turned 20 on May 15, we wanted to reflect on how far we have come. How did an Egyptian startup break into a market dominated by centuries-old conglomerates protected by moats of prestige? ...</span></p>
<p><span>Hindawi’s first decade was spent building a global publishing business and learning to compete with much larger companies. Our second was spent defining and promoting OA publishing models. We look forward to many more years of applying the same rigorous attention to detail to the craft of scholarly publishing, contributing to a more open and connected world...."</span></p>
Thu, 23 May 2019 08:18:00 -0400https://about.hindawi.com/blog/celebrating-20-years/
oa.newoa.hindawioa.publishersoa.goldoa.milestonesoa.history_ofoa.peopleoa.growthoa.journalsDefending the Promise of Open Resources<p>"<span>Open Up Resources was born out of a demand from educators to make a quality education accessible to each student, in every classroom, by providing high-quality, standards-aligned curriculum for free.</span></p>
<p>We released <em>Open Up Resources 6–8 Math</em> under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC-BY License), which enables anyone to “copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format” as well as “remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially,” so long as attribution to Open Up Resources is provided and a few other simple license terms are followed.</p>
<p> <a href="https://openupresources.org/oer-and-creative-commons-licenses">Our grant of the CC-BY License</a> is conditioned upon the simple requirement that every copy shared with the public by a licensee includes on each physical page of any printed material, and every format page view of digital material, the attribution statement “Download for free at openupresources.org.”</p>
<p>While we encourage widespread distribution of our curriculum, we also believe that the attribution requirement of the CC-BY License must be followed by anyone sharing our curriculum or derivatives of our curriculum.</p>
<p>Major for-profit publishers are taking our free curriculum, paying for a “certification” from a non-profit in the OER community, and selling the result without providing attribution that would make it clear no payment is necessary.</p>
<p>This destroys the promise of open by making open materials private and limiting access...."</p>
Thu, 23 May 2019 08:11:00 -0400https://news.openupresources.org/defending-promise-open-resources
oa.newoa.oeroa.licensingoa.publishersoa.misconductoa.libreDORA 6 years out: A global community 14,000 strong – DORA<p>"<span>DORA turns 6 years old this week. Or, as we like to say, this year DORA reached 14,000—that’s how many people have signed DORA, and they come from more than 100 countries! Each signature represents an individual committed to improving research assessment in their community, in their corner of the world. And 1,300 organizations in more than 75 countries, in signing DORA, have publicly committed to improving their practices in research evaluation and to encouraging positive change in research culture...."</span></p>
Thu, 23 May 2019 08:07:00 -0400https://sfdora.org/2019/05/16/dora-6-years-out-a-global-community-14000-strong/
oa.newoa.impactoa.declarationsoa.doraoa.milestonesoa.metricsoa.signaturesoa.growthoa.progressLA Referencia - Public Policies for Scholarly Communication in Latin America<p>"This document, entitled "Scholarly Communication and Open Access. Actions for a Public Policy in Latin America", was written by LA Referencia for the regional authorities of this organization that attended the annual Global Research Council meeting.<a href="http://www.lareferencia.info/es/component/k2/item/233-public-policies-for-scholarly-communication-in-latin-america#ftn1">1</a> The document is published and disseminated to promote the discussion and construction of a joint vision that needs to be strengthened and updated in light of the challenges faced by Open Access in the region in the short and medium term.</p>
<p>Scientific communication and change of model; the situation in Latin America; scholarly communication system of the region; principles and actions and recommendations for repositories, consortiums and journals are the most important topics addressed in these pages.</p>
<p>The article also reviews the challenges faced in Latin America and reinforces the need to take actions so that totally or partially publicly financed results are Open Access, as well as the central role S&amp;T organizations play to achieve this.</p>
<p>Based on the regional reality, general principles and actions are proposed for Open Access repositories, consortiums, and journals to have a more systemic point of view from a public policy approach. The document concludes with the need to discuss initiatives such as "Plan S", specifying the points of agreement and disagreement, given the regional context, regarding topics such as article processing charges (APC) or an assessment of the role of repositories...."</p>
Thu, 23 May 2019 08:06:00 -0400http://www.lareferencia.info/es/component/k2/item/233-public-policies-for-scholarly-communication-in-latin-america
oa.newoa.policiesoa.latin_americaoa.feesoa.recommendationsoa.goldoa.greenoa.plan_soa.repositoriesoa.journalsoa.southDear Colleague Letter: Effective Practices for Data (nsf19069) | NSF - National Science Foundation<p>"<span>Open science principles are increasingly being adopted by industry, government, and academia. Open science gives rise to public benefits by offering broader access to publication, data, and other research materials; broader access enables broader circulation of scientific knowledge, greater return on investments in research data, and more opportunities for replicating and building upon scientific findings.</span></p>
<p>NSF's open science policy is articulated in the Foundation's Public Access Plan (<a href="https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf15052">NSF 15-052</a>) and formally implemented in the NSF Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide and in the Award Terms and Conditions that accompany each award that NSF makes. Implications of this policy are further clarified in an actively-maintained set of Frequently Asked Questions (<a href="https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf18041">NSF 18-041</a>).</p>
<p>The purpose of this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) is to describe — and encourage — effective practices for managing <em>research data</em><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19069/nsf19069.jsp#ftn1"><span>1</span></a>, including the use of persistent identifiers (IDs) for data and machine-readable data management plans (DMPs)...."</p>
Thu, 23 May 2019 07:58:00 -0400https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19069/nsf19069.jsp
oa.newoa.usaoa.usa.nsfoa.policiesoa.policies.fundersoa.funders.publicoa.dataoa.dmpoa.fundersThe Faculty Lounge: @SSRN and the (Arbitrary) Determination of "Scholarly" Merit<p>"<span>Yesterday Brian Frye (@brianlfrye) (Kentucky) tweeted:</span></p>
<p>I am sad. @SSRN has decided that my article about Gremlins (1984), "In re Patentability of the Peltzer Inventions," does not qualify for "public" status because it is "opinion, advocacy, or satire." Why judge? Oh well. You can still download it here: http://www.ssrn.com/abstrac_id=3371989.</p>
<p>I followed Brian's <a href="https://www.ssrn.com/abstrac_id=3371989">direct link</a> to the piece. The abstract refers refers to the many inventions of the movie's Randall Peltzer character, and explains, "This essay takes the form of an opinion letter valuating the patentability of Peltizer's inventions." I don't teach IP, but I like Brian's work and so I downloaded the essay. It struck me as funny and as an excellent teaching tool. But if you go to Brian's author page on SSRN, you wouldn't be able to access the paper. You wouldn't even see it.</p>
<p>I myself have posted material that apparently doesn't meet SSRN's criteria for a "scholarly paper," including <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2808261">this interview with</a> the principal drafter of some important state trust legislation (and the interview itself has been cited in subsequent scholarship) and <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3006179">this short piece</a> for <em>Tax Notes</em> reviewing estate and gift tax law review articles published in 2016 (even though SSRN published my similar pieces reviewing scholarship for the years <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2763674">2015, 2014</a>, <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2455917">2013</a>, <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2297627">2012</a>, <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2014852">2011</a>, <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1781143">2010</a>)....</p>
<p><strong>Does the classification of publicly-available "scholarly" papers and privately-available "non-scholarly" papers as applied serve SSRN's mission? To me, the answer is no. </strong>Brian Frye's patentability piece, which strikes me as a great teaching and learning tool, has an easy home in the "Law Educator: Courses, Materials &amp; Teaching eJournal," if not the substantive IP eJournals (not my field). Oh, but wait, are "Courses" scholarship? They must be. So must be "Materials," because they are publicly available and only "scholarly" works are publicly available. But Brian's piece isn't "teaching material" in SSRN's universe? That doesn't make any sense to me.</p>
<p>Like others, I have been (and remain) skeptical of Elsevier's acquisition of SSRN. Since then, I've noticed that papers tend to take longer to get "approved" (the longest wait I've had is 6 weeks, and even then, I had to contact customer service to point out that it had been 6 weeks since submission, and could SSRN pretty please post the piece). I find useless the JEL Classificiation Codes (not an Elsevier invention), at least in the case of the "Law &amp; Economics" (or "K") codes applied to most law review scholarship. These sort codes are so blunt as to be useless for my research, at least. Maybe the codes work better in Economics (after all, the classification system was developed by the Journal of Economic Literature)...."</p>
Thu, 23 May 2019 06:41:00 -0400https://www.thefacultylounge.org/2019/05/ssrn-and-the-arbitrary-determination-of-scholarly-merit.html
oa.newoa.ssrnoa.repositoriesoa.elsevierOur second community roadmap proposal process kicks off today! – Editoria<p>"<span>Today, we invite submissions for our next round of community </span><a href="https://editoria.pub/features/propose-a-feature/">roadmap feature proposals</a><span>! This means that from this moment forward two weeks, anyone is welcomed and encouraged to submit feature requests representative of the functionality ideal to see in Editoria moving forward. At the very same time, please continuously monitor the proposals others have made and add comments, likes, etc. This is very helpful community participation and is truly your chance to influence the roadmap!..."</span></p>
Thu, 23 May 2019 06:36:00 -0400https://editoria.pub/2019/05/21/our-second-community-roadmap-proposal-process-kicks-off-today/
oa.newoa.editoriaoa.platformsoa.infrastructureoa.flossText of Digital Library Futures keynote (Cambridge, 21st May 2019) | Martin Paul Eve | Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing<p>"<span>There is a short story by the famous Argentine author, Jorge Luis Borges, of a civilization possessed of a holy book. The book must, at all costs, be protected and preserved for the future. It is encased within a dark and mighty sarcophagus to ensure its safety from quote “humidity, heat, damp, cold, ice, fire, wind, rain, snow, sleet, prying fingers, hard stares, the gnawing of rats, sonic disintegration, the dribbling of infants, and the population at large” end quote. The special caste of custodians in the story – a kind of priesthood of knowledge – are confident that they can protect the book; especially from this last and most damaging group, the population at large. Indeed, as time goes by and greater swathes of this growingly democratic population request access to the book, the priesthood formulate ever-more contrived rationales for the protection of the artefact. The intrinsic value of the book, to use a term from the report that forms the basis of today’s symposium, seems, in the story, to be increased by its scarcity of access, even as its instrumental value to society grows lesser by the day. For even the priesthood do not really know or understand the contents of the book that they guard. They have only the peripheral metadata context within which to work: the sacredness of the artefact, but also the sacredness of the notion of preservation. As preservation becomes an end in itself for the priesthood, the barbarian populace eventually overwhelm the fortification and prise open the sacred sarcophagus. The story draws to a close as the lay tribes examine the holy book, over the corpses of the priesthood, to find that it is written in a language and script that is completely indecipherable and that has been lost to time; as meaning has eroded over the span of artefactual preservation.</span></p>
<p>Borges, of course, never actually wrote such a story. But he could have and it did sound vaguely plausible as a transparent allegory of the phenomenon under discussion today. Namely: what is the tension between, and the resolution of, preservation and access for non-print legal deposit? How is it that we have come to a situation where the path-dependence of print has so thoroughly conditioned the access possibilities for the digital that its most salient property – that of non-rivalrous dissemination – must be once more made rivalrous and discarded? And what of the structures of meaning that themselves naturally erode over time, like an entropic process, in the digital space? How, without some form of continuous access, can we ensure that we can still read our digitally preserved heritage over even a decadal timespan?...</p>
<p>But the 909 articles published or supported solely by the platform that I run, the Open Library of Humanities, in its first year accumulated 118,686 unique views. That is, this tiny number of open access articles were viewed by more people than a UK national-level pilot giving on-site access to vast quantities of subscription material across all disciplines over almost double the same time period. This kind of study is most often used to show that “very few people want to read this material, so why should an industry reconfigure its economics to accommodate such changes?” I think that our platform shows exactly the opposite, though. For this is where my interests in open access coincide with issues of user-centric thinking about non-print legal deposit. In a world where we can demonstrate by example that there is an audience for even the most abstruse types of humanities scholarship, it is becoming increasingly problematic to separate preservation from any kind of distributed networked access...."</p>
Thu, 23 May 2019 06:35:00 -0400https://eve.gd/2019/05/21/text-of-digital-library-futures-keynote-cambridge-21st-may-2019/
oa.newoa.preservationoa.printoa.open_library_humanitiesEnhancing OER Support by Developing a Workflow and Service Model<p>Abstract: My capstone project for the 2018-19 SPARC Open Education Leadership Program focused on developing internal infrastructure in order to support a new and quickly growing OER program at the University of Houston (UH). The primary goals of my project were to develop an OER adoption workflow to support instructors in replacing commercial textbooks, and to develop a service model for an effective and sustainable level of OER support.</p>
<p>This report details the process of completing the capstone project, which included conducting an environmental scan of OER needs at UH, reviewing existing OER workflows and similar resources, developing an OER adoption workflow specific to the UH context, and beginning to develop a service model for OER support. Successful completion of the capstone project is evaluated by comparing project outcomes to the desired goals. </p>
<p>Lessons learned include recognizing the value of documentation, resisting perfection, understanding my own process, and acknowledging my progress and successes. This project would not be as successful without my SPARC mentor, Camille Thomas (Scholarly Publishing Librarian, Texas Tech University), who provided constant guidance and support.</p>
Thu, 23 May 2019 06:29:00 -0400https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IZC3zsqsr4bo_uehQB1sAJbpGCQ2_NMQoatmrsI6w0I/edit
oa.newoa.oeroa.caseoa.u.houstonoa.case.oeroa.textbooksoa.sustainabilityoa.booksoa.economics_ofElsevier changes: Message from the provost | LSU Libraries<p>"<span>For decades, LSU has subscribed to a package of some 1,800 electronic journal titles from Elsevier publishing. Dramatic increases to subscription costs in recent years have become unsustainable, and a renewal in 2020 would come with a price tag of at least $2 million annually. The university administration, LSU Libraries, and the Faculty Senate have been grappling with the high cost of Elsevier’s journals, as have many other universities nationwide.</span></p>
<p>During the Faculty Senate’s final meeting of the spring semester, senators approved a resolution recommending the cancellation of the subscription package of Elsevier journals. Going forward, the Libraries will subscribe to Elsevier journals on a title-by-title basis, retaining the most highly used journals by the LSU community. The resolution further called for the creation of expedited document delivery to provide fast, unmediated access to articles in journals not on subscription.</p>
<p>The LSU administration supports this course of action. Once the current contract with Elsevier expires at the end of 2019, LSU will break away from the package agreement, and expects to spend $1 million on Elsevier titles, subscribing to fewer journals and providing access to all previously available material through alternate sources...."</p>
Thu, 23 May 2019 06:25:00 -0400https://www.lib.lsu.edu/elsevier-changes/provost-message
oa.newoa.elsevieroa.cancellationsoa.big_dealsoa.librariesoa.budgetsDOAB Foundation Press Release<p>"<span>OAPEN Foundation (Netherlands) and OpenEdition (France) are pleased to announce the creation of DOAB Foundation as a joint venture between the two partners. The mission of the new foundation is to provide an independent and trustworthy </span><a href="http://doabooks.org/">Directory of Open Access Books</a><span> to the academic community and the general public.</span></p>
<p><span> </span></p>
<ul>
<li>DOAB was developed in 2012 by OAPEN as a dedicated discovery service for OA books, next to the existing OAPEN Library. Since then, the directory became one of the fastest growing OA resources, and now indexes more than 16,500 open access books from 315 publishers worldwide.</li>
<li>In 2012, OAPEN and OpenEdition partnered in DILOH. This is a project funded by the French government under the “investissement d’avenir” label to enable the French academic production in social sciences and humanities reach an international audience and support the development of DOAB.</li>
<li>In 2017 OAPEN and OpenEdition partnered with eight other parties in HIRMEOS, a project funded by the European Commission under the framework “Horizon 2020” to develop innovative services for open access books. In HIRMEOS, OAPEN and OpenEdition worked together to add a Certification service on peer review to DOAB.</li>
<li>In 2018, the French Minister of Research Frédérique Vidal adopted a National Plan for Open Science and included in the Plan’s action points, the creation of the Franco-Dutch foundation.</li>
<li>On the 5th of March 2019, DOAB was established as a foundation under Dutch law, in co-ownership between OAPEN Foundation and OpenEdition, legally represented by CNRS and Aix-Marseille University, its governing institutions...."</li>
</ul>
Thu, 23 May 2019 05:51:00 -0400https://mailchi.mp/oapen.org/doab-foundation-press-release?e=87c5ed390f
oa.newoa.doaboa.booksoa.openeditionVisualizing Chronicling America Data: 15 million pages of digitized historical newspapers | The Signal<p>"This week we celebrate an exciting milestone. <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/?loclr=blogsig">Chronicling America</a>, the online searchable database of historic U.S. newspapers, now includes more than 15 million pages! To mark the occasion, we are throwing a <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChronAmParty?src=hash&amp;lang=en">#ChronAmParty</a> on Twitter and unveiling a set of interactive data visualizations that help reveal the variety of content available in a corpus of 15 million digitized newspaper pages...."</p>
Thu, 23 May 2019 05:15:00 -0400https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2019/05/visualizing-chronicling-america-data-15-million-pages-of-digitized-historical-newspapers/
oa.newoa.newsoa.usaoa.locoa.digitizationoa.ndnpoa.nehIn support of open infrastructures: A statement from OPERAS in response to the ‘Open Research Library’, a new initiative from Knowledge Unlatched<p>On May 16, Knowledge Unlatched (KU) launched a new hosting platform for Open Access monographs, the <a href="http://knowledgeunlatched.org/2019/05/knowledge-unlatched-and-partners-launch-open-research-library/">Open Research Library</a> (ORL). Notwithstanding its name, we do not consider the Open Research Library to qualify as an open infrastructure.</p>
Thu, 23 May 2019 05:06:00 -0400https://operas.hypotheses.org/2658
oa.operasoa.knowledge_unlatchedoa.searchoa.objectionsoa.debatesoa.open_research_libraryoa.doaboa.hirmeosoa.humanitiesoa.sshoa.academic_ledoa.newoa.franceoa.platformsoa.infrastructureoa.booksoa.sustainabilityoa.open_scienceoa.economics_ofAuftaktveranstaltung des ORCID Österreich Konsortiums (Kick-off event of the ORCID Austria consortium)<p>From Google's English: </p>
<p>"On June 13, 2019, the <strong>inaugural event of the <a href="https://orcid.org/blog/2019/02/15/orcid-%C3%B6sterreich-konsortium-gr%C3%BCndung-und-perspektive">ORCID Austria consortium</a></strong> will take place at the TU Vienna . Essentially, it will be about the presentation and discussion of the perspectives of <a href="https://orcid.org/">ORCID</a> in Austria from the point of view of universities, researchers and research sponsors. For this reason, the TU Vienna and the University of Vienna as consortial lead organizations cordially invite all those interested in the development of ORCID in Austria to this event.</p>
<p>Participation is free, <strong>program</strong> details and <strong>registration</strong> details can be found at the following link:</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://orcid.org/content/2019-austrian-consortium-workshop">&gt;&gt; https://orcid.org/content/2019-austrian-consortium-workshop</a>"</strong></p>
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Thu, 23 May 2019 04:55:00 -0400https://www.oana.at/news-events/news-detailansicht/news/auftaktveranstaltung-des-orcid-oesterreich-konsortiums/?tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&cHash=c3dc121627d0c0fa294f83a3878a6b90
oa.newoa.austriaoa.germanoa.eventsoa.orcidEinrichtung einer Clearing-Stelle für Datenschutz- und Urheberrechtsfragen gemeinsam für alle Forschungsinstitutionen (Establishment of a clearing house for data protection and copyright issues together for all research institutions)<p>From Google's English: </p>
<p><strong>"Recommendation to establish a clearinghouse for privacy and copyright issues together for all research institutions</strong></p>
<p>Summary of the recommendation paper:</p>
<ul>
<li>settled at an Austrian institution, which feels committed as a "neutral place" to all researchers and other members of universities in Austria (eg in a KEMÖ-like structure);</li>
<li>with an open website ("chatroom") for common legal problems / questions on which experts of the institutions or lawyers contribute / share their expertise;</li>
</ul>
<p>→ start-up financing as a project in the framework of the digitization call of the BMBWF; then transfer into a permanent structure, supported by the institutions."</p>Thu, 23 May 2019 04:52:00 -0400https://www.oana.at/news-events/news-detailansicht/news/einrichtung-einer-clearing-stelle-fuer-datenschutz-und-urheberrechtsfragen-gemeinsam-fuer-alle-forsch/?tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&cHash=7b724894de4985ff092548fc55dbaeea
oa.newoa.austriaoa.germanoa.copyrightoa.licensingoa.privacyoa.universitiesoa.open_scienceoa.dataoa.rdmoa.infrastructureoa.heioa.libreoa.recommendationsAndré Laperrière: Executive Director at Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition - Geographical<p>"<strong>GODAN is a knowledge broker, facilitating </strong><span>the flow of data knowledge in relation to anything that has to do with agriculture on a worldwide basis. We focus on parts of the world that have the greatest potential for agriculture, bearing in the mind the 2050 horizon where in light of climate change and demographics there’s likely to be a global nutrition challenge. So our mission is to address that. We believe that knowledge, open-source data and innovation is the way to work on these challenges...."</span></p>
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Thu, 23 May 2019 04:51:00 -0400http://geographical.co.uk/people/i-m-a-geographer/item/3163-andre-laperriere
oa.newoa.peopleoa.godanoa.agricultureoa.nutritionoa.dataOANA – Open Science Network Austria<p>On this website you will find information about the activities of the network and its working groups as well as events and information material on open science in Austria.</p>
Thu, 23 May 2019 04:49:00 -0400https://www.oana.at/
oa.newoa.austriaoa.eventsoa.open_scienceEUA commissions study to investigate Read&Publish agreements - ERA Portal Austria<p>The European University Association (EUA) has announced that it has selected Technopolis to carry out a study on so-called Read &amp; Publish agreements with scientific publishers. Technopolis, a consultancy firm specialised in science and technology policy, was selected following a call for tenders by the EUA.</p>
Thu, 23 May 2019 04:46:00 -0400https://era.gv.at/object/news/4734
oa.newoa.austriaoa.agreementsoa.membershipsoa.caseoa.reportsoa.publishersoa.fundingoa.librariesoa.negotiationsoa.universitiesoa.heioa.offsetsoa.euaEUA and Science Europe launch initiative to further develop scholarly research assessment methodologies - ERA Portal Austria<p>On 14 May 2019, the European University Association (EUA) and Science Europe published a statement calling for moving away from current ways of assessing research, and to establish systems that better assess research potential. According to the paper, today the outcomes of scholarly research are often measured through methods based on quantitative, albeit approximate, indicators such as the journal impact factor. The authors underline the need to explore new and improved research assessment approaches, also indispensable for turning these innovations into systemic reforms.</p>
Thu, 23 May 2019 04:41:00 -0400https://era.gv.at/object/news/4724
oa.newoa.austriaoa.assessmentoa.science_europeoa.jifoa.fundersoa.metricsoa.euaoa.incentivesVinnova joins cOAlition S - ERA Portal Austria<p>On 22 May 2019, cOAlition S announced that Vinnova, Sweden’s government agency for Innovation, is the latest funding agency to join the coalition of national research funding organisations supporting open access to research publications. cOAlition S now has 19 members from across Europe, North America, Africa, and the Middle East.</p>
Thu, 23 May 2019 04:36:00 -0400https://era.gv.at/object/news/4739
oa.newoa.austriaoa.plan_soa.collaborationoa.declarationsoa.fundersWill Transformative Agreements Unravel Library Consortia? - The Scholarly Kitchen<p>"<span>Over the past few months we’ve seen increased attention to consortial efforts to reach</span><span> </span><a href="https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/04/23/transformative-agreements/">transformative agreements</a><span> </span><span>with publishers. Some recent successes include</span><span> </span><a href="https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/01/22/celebrating-30000-open-access-articles/">DEAL/Germany with Wiley</a><span>,</span><span> </span><a href="https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/04/22/read-publish-california-cambridge/">University of California with Cambridge University Press</a><span>, Springer Nature with Jisc/UK, and Elsevier with UNIT/Norway. It is clear that many library consortia are prioritizing open access publishing in their publisher contracts, which they have stated clearly must be cost neutral or at least cost controlling overall.</span></p>
<p><span>Underneath the importance of cost control in the aggregate lies an extremely important question — how is the cost of a transformative agreement distributed within a library consortium among its members? I observe today that cost share distribution within consortia is a substantial risk to the ability of transformative agreements to take hold for the long term and may threaten the cohesion of consortia as well...."</span></p>
Wed, 22 May 2019 13:36:00 -0400https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/05/20/transformative-agreements-unravel-library-consortia/
oa.newoa.librariesoa.consortiaoa.offsetsoa.conversionsoa.agreementsoa.risksJoin us for a Twitter chat! | Creative Commons USA<p>"<span>Next month, Creative Commons USA is hosting a Twitter chat in partnership with the</span><span> </span><a href="http://research.cehd.umn.edu/otn/">Open Textbook Network</a><span>,</span><span> </span><a href="https://www.rebus.community/">Rebus Community</a><span>,</span><span> </span><a href="https://coko.foundation/">Collaborative Knowledge Foundation</a><span>, and</span><span> </span><a href="https://librarypublishing.org/">Library Publishing Coalition</a><span> </span><span>around open licensing, CC, copyright, and other intellectual property issues.</span></p>
<p>We’re inviting practitioners from across the spectrum to join our experts – including <a href="https://www.wcl.american.edu/faculty/mcarroll/">Michael Carroll</a>, a founding member of Creative Commons, currently a Professor of Law and the Director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, and <a href="http://www.pijip.org/meredith-jacob/">Meredith Jacob</a>, Public Lead for Creative Commons USA. Ethan Senack, Outreach and Policy Manager for Creative Commons USA (<a href="https://twitter.com/esenack">@esenack</a>) will be moderating...."</p>
Wed, 22 May 2019 13:32:00 -0400https://creativecommonsusa.org/index.php/2019/05/21/join-us-for-a-twitter-chat-on-open-licensing/
oa.newoa.twitteroa.licensingoa.eventsoa.ccoa.social_mediaoa.copyrightoa.libreScienceOpen and Tsinghua University Press partner to increase impact of Chinese research – ScienceOpen Blog<p>"<span>The discovery platform</span><span> </span><a href="https://www.scienceopen.com/">ScienceOpen</a><span> </span><span>is partnering with</span><span> </span><a href="http://www.tup.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/index.html">Tsinghua University Press</a><span> </span><span>(TUP) to contextualize and promote Chinese research within an interactive research environment. This partnership integrates six TUP journals as featured collections in the ScienceOpen Super Collection</span><span> </span><a href="https://www.scienceopen.com/collection/TsinghuaUP">‘Tsinghua University Press’</a><span>.</span></p>
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<p>Tsinghua University Press started its international outreach in the 1990s and has ever since been actively involved in the international exchange of scientific research. Thanks to the resources of Tsinghua University, TUP has been one of the key players in the Chinese academic and higher education publishing landscape. With its freely accessible, interactive discovery environment of over 55 million article records, ScienceOpen places TUP’s journal content within a broad international research framework...."</p>
Wed, 22 May 2019 13:31:00 -0400http://blog.scienceopen.com/2019/05/scienceopen-and-tsinghua-university-press-partner-to-increase-impact-of-chinese-research/
oa.newoa.chinaoa.tsinghua.uoa.science_openoa.partnershipsoa.upoa.impactSenior Researcher in Open Science – Postdoc | Know-Center<p>"<span>We are looking for a</span><strong> postdoctoral researcher </strong><span>interested in </span><strong>Open Science.</strong><span> You will manage </span><strong>a new H2020 research project</strong><span>, coordinated by Know-Center, which will combine</span><strong> social and computational methods</strong><span>to study inequalities in </span><strong>Open Science</strong><span> and </span><strong>Responsible Research &amp; Innovation</strong><span>...."</span></p>
Wed, 22 May 2019 13:16:00 -0400https://www.know-center.tugraz.at/en/career/senior-researcher-open-science-postdoc-2/
oa.newoa.jobsoa.open_scienceoa.austriaCurrent Liblicense Archive - Knowledge Unlatched Financial Results 2018<p>"<span>Thanks to your support, especially on the library side, we have been able to grow our revenues to 1.977.769,02 EUR, or 2.206.695,78 USD and 1.733.613,43 GBP per December 31st 2018. This growth has enabled us to further expand our product development, in line with suggestions and demands from you, our partners. Two good examples of this are the launch of KU Open Funding, our central database offering an overview of the evolving, yet rather intransparent market around book processing charges, as well as KU Open Analytics. With the latter we are consolidating usage from multiple hosting platforms to demonstrate the successful usage of OA book titles around the world. </span></p>
<p>We are performing well, and through tight cost control, have been able to run a profit after taxes of 46.577,96 EUR (51.977,51 USD/40.827,91 GBP). This equals a 2,36% net profit margin. The 2018 net profit of Knowledge Unlatched is being shared 50/50 with the non-profit entity Knowledge Unlatched Research. I am enclosing an overview of our major cost items for your reference – please feel free to contact me at <a href="http://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?LOGON=A3%3Dind1905%26L%3DLIBLICENSE-L%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D352192%26B%3D--0000000000003cae9105895cf25a%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DUTF-8%26pending%3D">[log in to unmask]</a> should you have any questions about this. Please note that the annual filings will be published at Bundesanzeige.de, as required by law...."</p>
Wed, 22 May 2019 13:14:00 -0400http://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=ind1905&L=LIBLICENSE-L&P=34250
oa.newoa.kuoa.profitsoa.economics_ofoa.booksAre preprints paving the way to science in real time? | Jisc scholarly communications<p>"<a href="http://knowledge-exchange.info/event/preprints">Knowledge Exchange</a><span> has been investigating this fast-changing and exciting landscape since 2018 and asked Research Consulting to conduct a study on the status and impact of preprints. KE has recently released a </span><a href="http://bit.ly/KEpreprintslides">slide deck</a><span> summarising the results of the first stage of the work. This involved an initial literature review, followed by 38 interviews with research funders, research performing organisations, preprint servers, other service providers and researchers. In this post, I will take you through some of the key findings and will highlight what will happen next. ...</span></p>
<p><strong>Our five take-aways on preprints</strong></p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Twitter is playing a key enabling role in the diffusion of preprints.</strong> Even though preprints are nothing new, technology is enabling new ways to leverage this growing approach to scholarly communication. Today, people are often exposed to preprints thanks to Twitter, which is also useful for their discovery and to provide feedback to authors.</li>
<li><strong>A one-size-fits-all solution that works for all disciplines is not likely to be achievable at present</strong>: preprints exist in a complex environment, due to the wide range of technical approaches, business models, roles and responsibilities, disciplinary customs and more.</li>
<li><strong>Who should be responsible for posting preprints – researchers or publishers? </strong>This question hints at the models underpinning preprint servers, as these are usually either standalone (e.g. not-for-profit, grant-funded) or publisher-backed. Standalone preprint servers would tend to rely on researchers posting preprints themselves (i.e. they require a high level of engagement), while a publisher-centric approach simplifies workflows but feeds into the concerns around market consolidation in the academic publishing landscape.</li>
<li><strong>Some researchers are worried that journals may reject their submissions</strong> if a preprint has been posted previously: this is a key obstacle to the uptake of preprint servers. Information is often available on publisher websites and on Wikipedia, but the concern remains widespread in practice.</li>
<li><strong>Suitable business models will have to be developed</strong> if preprints are to succeed in the long term. In this process, it will be important to assess the opportunity cost of preprint servers and all related workflows (including long-term preservation): could the same funds be spent differently and have a better impact on open science and scholarly communication? ..."</li>
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Wed, 22 May 2019 13:05:00 -0400https://scholarlycommunications.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2019/05/22/are-preprints-paving-the-way-to-science-in-real-time/
oa.newoa.preprintsoa.speedoa.discoverabilityoa.twitteroa.social_mediaoa.disciplinesoa.ingelfinger_ruleoa.business_modelsoa.versionsDARIAH endorses the statement from OPERAS in response to the ‘Open Research Library’, a new initiative from Knowledge Unlatched – DARIAH Open<p>"On 16 May 2019, Knowledge Unlatched<a href="http://knowledgeunlatched.org/2019/05/knowledge-unlatched-and-partners-launch-open-research-library/"> announced</a> the launch of a new hosting platform for Open Access books, the Open Research Library (ORL). Since the announcement multiple actor groups involved in the production of open monographs have <a href="https://operas.hypotheses.org/2658">voiced</a> their<a href="http://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/open-book-publishers-statement-on-knowledge-unlatched-and-the-open-research-library/"> concerns</a> about the new platform as it goes against the fundamental principles and values that define open, transparent and community-led scholarly infrastructures.</p>
<p>At DARIAH, we believe that the sustainability, optimal coverage, and most importantly the openness of scholarly infrastructural components are key in shaping the future of scholarly communication for the better. Therefore, we would here like to express our endorsement for the <a href="https://operas.hypotheses.org/2658">statement by our sister infrastructure, OPERAS, in response to the Open Research Library</a>. The full text of their statement can be found below....</p>
<p>In our opinion, the ORL does not meet the criteria for open infrastructures. On the contrary, based on the statement from KU and the early release of the ORL, the approach of this platform closely resembles well-known internet strategies to quickly achieve a dominant position by aggregating all available content and offering a free service to the community, while aiming for a lock-in of users and stakeholders. The ORL is neither open nor transparent, in particular regarding its governance.</p>
<p>While we are not against commercial ventures or market competition, we strongly believe that vital infrastructures supporting Open Science should not fall in the hands of commercial operators. These infrastructures should be a collective responsibility of stakeholders in scholarly communication. We see <a href="http://scoss.org/">SCOSS</a> and the recent launch of the <a href="https://sparcopen.org/news/2019/investing-in-open-scholarly-infrastructure-a-community-opportunity/">IOI</a> initiative as positive signs that this collective responsibility can become a reality. With this in mind, we think that the ORL is not helpful, and could well be harmful, on the road to establishing a distributed, open and sustainable infrastructure for Open Access monographs...."</p>
Wed, 22 May 2019 13:02:00 -0400https://dariahopen.hypotheses.org/577
oa.newoa.dariahoa.kuoa.operasoa.open_research_libraryoa.objectionsoa.debatesoa.booksoa.infrastructureoa.scossoa.ioiDOAB Foundation: toward a European label for academic books in open access – Open Electronic Publishing<p>"OAPEN Foundation (Netherlands) and OpenEdition (France) are pleased to announce the creation of DOAB Foundation as a joint venture between the two partners. The mission of the new foundation is to provide an independent and trustworthy Directory of Open Access Books to the academic community and the general public....</p>
<p> In 2012, OAPEN and OpenEdition partnered in DILOH. This is a project funded by the French government under the “investissement d’avenir” label to enable the French academic production in social sciences and humanities reach an international audience and support the development of DOAB.
• In 2017 OAPEN and OpenEdition partnered with eight other parties in HIRMEOS, a project funded by the European Commission under the framework “Horizon 2020” to develop innovative services for open access books. In HIRMEOS, OAPEN and OpenEdition worked together to add a Certification service on peer- review to DOAB....</p>
<p>In the coming months, OAPEN and OpenEdition will work together with other OPERAS partners to upgrade the DOAB platform and integrate it in its institutional context: DOAB will eventually become one of the core services of OPERAS, the European research infrastructure for open scholarly communication in social sciences and humanities...."</p>
Wed, 22 May 2019 12:59:00 -0400https://oep.hypotheses.org/2230
oa.newoa.doaboa.booksoa.europeoa.oapenoa.humanitiesoa.hirmeosoa.operasoa.infrastructureoa.sshJob Description - Assistant/Associate Professor, Head of Scholarly Communications and Data Management (190264)<p>"<span>Boise State University's Albertsons Library seeks a Head of Scholarly Communications and Data Management who will serve as a strong open access advocate with a firm understanding of the practical challenges involved in transforming traditional research dissemination systems...."</span></p>
Wed, 22 May 2019 12:57:00 -0400https://boisestate.taleo.net/careersection/exfac/jobdetail.ftl?job=190264&tz=GMT%E2%80%9006%3A00
oa.newoa.jobsoa.scholcommoa.usaoa.usa.idOpen and Shut?: The OA interviews: Arianna Becerril-García, Chair of AmeliCA<p>"A professor in the School of Political and Social Sciences at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico (<a href="https://www.uaemex.mx/">UAEM</a>), <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0278-8295">Arianna Becerril-García</a> is also the Executive Director of <a href="https://www.redalyc.org/home.oa">Redalyc</a>, the Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. Redalyc is a regional open access portal for the social sciences and humanities that indexes 1,305 local journals and hosts the full texts of more than 650,000 articles. ...</p>
<p>In addition, Becerril-García is the Chair of a new project called <a href="http://www.amelica.org/en/index.php/que-es-ameli/">AmeliCA</a> (Open Knowledge for Latin America and the Global South). AmeliCA’s goal is to propagate the Redalyc model to the more than 15,000 journals in the region and elsewhere in the Global South.</p>
<p>As Chair of AmeliCA, Becerril-García has become a vocal critic of <a href="https://www.coalition-s.org/">Plan S</a> – the European OA initiative announced last year by a group of funders that call themselves cOAlition S. While AmeliCA shares cOAlition S’s goal of achieving universal open access, says Becerril-García, it fears that, as currently conceived, Plan S would disenfranchise researchers in the Global South and exclude them further from the international scholarly publishing system...."</p>
Wed, 22 May 2019 09:50:00 -0400https://poynder.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-oa-interviews-arianna-becerril.html
oa.newoa.peopleoa.interviewsoa.amelicaoa.latin_americaoa.plan_soa.southoa.academic_ledoa.redalycoa.clacsooa.platformsoa.infrastructureoa.scielooa.sustainabilityoa.business_modelsoa.economics_ofA cross-sectional study of predatory publishing emails received by career development grant awardees | BMJ OpenWed, 22 May 2019 09:06:00 -0400https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/5/e027928
oa.newoa.predatoryoa.publishersoa.goldoa.journalsoa.authorsoa.surveysWhat counts in research? Dysfunction in knowledge creation & moving beyond | Sustaining the Knowledge Commons / Soutenir les savoirs communs<p>One of the long-term challenges to transitioning scholarly communication to open access is reliance on bibliometrics. Many authors and organizations are working to address this challenge. The purpose of this post is to share some highlights of my work in progress, a book chapter (preprint) designed to explain the current state of bibliometrics in the context of a critique of global university rankings. Some reflections in brief that are new and relevant to advocates of open access and changes in evaluation of scholarly work follow.</p>
<p><strong>Impact:it is not logical to equate impact with quality, and further, it is dangerous to do so.</strong></p>
<p><strong>New metrics (or altmetrics) serve many purposes and should be developed and used, but should be avoided in the context of evaluating the quality of scholarship.</strong></p>
<p><strong>New metrics are likely to change scholarship, but not necessarily in the ways anticipated by the open access movement</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>It is possible to evaluate scholarly research without recourse to metrics. The University of Ottawa’s collective agreement with full-time faculty reflects a model that not only avoids the problems of metrics, but is an excellent model for change in scholarly communication as it is recognized that scholarly works may take many forms.</strong></p>
Wed, 22 May 2019 08:42:00 -0400https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2019/05/22/what-counts-in-research-dysfunction-in-knowledge-creation-moving-beyond/
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